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Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…
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Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…
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Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding…
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Awe
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Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…
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Social Connection
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When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…
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Happiness
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Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…
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Forgiveness
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Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…
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Empathy
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The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…
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Altruism
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Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…
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“Stigma goes deep; shame goes deep. Gradually, when I dared speak up, trusted friends said ‘Tell me more.’ It’s like anything in life where you need some support: once you make the effort to reach out and people don’t shun you, your world opens up.”― How to Turn Stigma about Mental Illness into Compassion, by Jill Suttie